Tegucigalpa The highlight reel of this year’s annual meeting of ACORN International’s board and staff is rolling out now. The Mexican and San Pedro Sula delegation were on a morning bus Saturday for the journeys home. At 4 AM I saw off the first five from ACORN Canada heading for their 24 hour journey home. …
Month: May 2011
Domestic Workers Pushback as Citizen Wealth Advances
Tegucigalpa What are the odds that as we talk about achieving living wages and income security as a central theme of Citizen Wealth that in successive days there are surprising stories of domestic workers winning or holding on to higher wages in both Brazil and Saudi Arabia? Admittedly, it is hard to organize a parade …
Death Threats, Web Attacks, and Organizing Reports
Tegucigalpa A critical feature to the annual international meeting of the ACORN International board and staff beginning last year in Lima and now with both excitement and trepidation is the reports from offices around the world on their progress. All of this is well and good, but we use Skype and our life blood is …